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The Killing of Michael X, A New Film by Celia Wallace

ABOUT THE PLAY:

After Celia's brother mysteriously ODs, she enlists her best friend Jake on a quest for revenge: they steal her step-mom's Lexus, and travel cross-country, hell-bent on killing the CEO of the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the drug. At least that's the movie running in Celia's head. But her imagined life quickly becomes more and more real as she finds herself in a motel room hatching a scheme meant to send a message to all of America. A dark, hilarious comedy about grief and pharmaceuticals, shot in digital video.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

Cory Hinkle's plays include Little Eyes, Cipher, Phosphorescence, and SadGrrl13 and have been produced or developed at the Guthrie, ART, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the SPF Summer Play Festival, Illusion Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Salvage Vanguard, Workhaus Collective, P73 Productions, Hangar Theatre, and Red Eye Collective, among others. Cory is a co-creator of Fissures (Lost and Found) commissioned by Actors Theater of Louisville and scheduled to premiere at the 2010 Humana Festival.
He has been commissioned by the Guthrie and is a former MacDowell Colony fellow, Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellow, and recipient of a Jerome Travel and Study Grant. He is a Core Member of the Playwrights' Center, a member playwright of the Workhaus Collective and he received two Jerome fellowships through the Playwrights' Center. Cory earned his MFA in Playwriting from Brown University and his work is published by Playscripts Inc. and Heinemann.